Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

"Six Snug Signallers" Outdoor group portrait of six signallers in the snow. Identified back row, left to right: 19636 Gunner (Gnr) Reginald Sylvester Mason; 19822 Gnr Gilbert James Simmonds; 19657 Stanley Clarence Whiting; 19806 Gnr Lewis Ewen McKenzie (later MM). Front row, seated: 19616 Gnr Frank Orman Ball and 19634 Gnr Allan Lyle McPherson (later MM). These men embarked for service overseas with the 8th Field Artillery Brigade aboard HMAT Medic (A7) on 20 May 1916 (Gnrs McPherson, Whiting and Ball from Sydney and Gnrs McKenzie and Simmonds from Melbourne). Gnr Mason, a printer from Corrowa, NSW, prior to enlistment, died of wounds in Belgium on 27 September 1917, aged 22. The other five men survived the war.

WW1 medal set embarkation pre Dec 1915. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Buckingham Palace, London. C. 1943-06. Group portrait taken outside Buckingham Palace after the Queen's Investiture. Left to right 408076 Flight Sergeant T. D. Simpson DFM of Hobart, Tas; 406248 Pilot Officer C. L. Howard DFC of Perth, WA; 407729 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) D. J. Shannon DSO DFC of Bridgewater, SA; Wing Commander G. P. Gibson VC DSO and Bar DFC and Bar, RAF; 407074 Flt Lt R. C. Hay DFC and Bar of Malvern, SA; 402367 Flt Lt J. F. Leggo DFC and Bar of Lake Macquarie, NSW; Flt Lt H. B. Martin DSO DFC of Sydney, NSW, RAF; 407380 Pilot Officer F. M. Spafford DFC DFM of Wayville, SA. They were all decorated for the part they had played in the famous raid on the German dams, led by the Commanding Officer Wing Commander Gibson who was awarded the VC.

The Vultee Vengeance single engine dive bomber which equipped 12 Squadron RAAF.

Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 1992-02-25. Group portrait of members of the Australian contingent to the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC), on the occasion of the presentation to them of the Australian Service Medal. The soldiers are dressed in jungle green uniforms with the distinctive blue berets and scarves of the United Nations (UN). Left to right: back row: Warrant Officer 2 (WO2) J. W. Cruickshank (with moustache); Sergeant (Sgt) A. G. Wills; Corporal (Cpl) J. Gallarello (with moustache); Cpl S. Haines; Lance Cpl C. G. T. Woodcock. 2nd row: WO1 W. D. Williams (wearing glasses); Cpl G. E. Dunn (wearing glasses); Staff Sgt T. C. Sharman (wearing glasses); Signaller (Sig) M. D. Forte; Captain R. M. Glenny (face partly obscured); Cpl C. A. Von Bischoffshausen (face partly obscured). 3rd row: Cpl P. J. Brown; Cpl R. A. Roods (tall); Sig F. L. McKenzie (face partly obscured); Sig B. J. Sedge; Sapper (Spr) T. A Cooper; Cpl P. C. Mitchell (at end of row, face partly obscured). 4th row: Spr N. E. O'Connor; Sgt G. C. Richardson (face partly obscured); Cpl M. Hicklen (face partly obscured); Cpl M. J. Quinn (tall, with moustache); Sig A. J. Colbert (face partly obscured); Cpl B. J. Forrest; Sig L. J. Maloney. 5th row: Cpl M. J. Ryan (with moustache); Cpl D. D. Redburn (squinting); Cpl R. M. T. Morrish (with glasses); Spr M. C. Harley (with moustache); Captain P. A. Bartu (turned side on); Spr S. J. V. Anderson. 6th row: Major (Maj) M. I. McGough; Maj J. G. Glenn; WO2 B. Williams (with moustache). 7th row: Maj D. A. Wilson; Cpl G. R. Hillman. Front row: Lieutenant Colonel R. A. Stuart, the Officer Commanding (OC) the contingent. (Donor R. Stuart)

Plymouth, England. C. 1943. Portrait of Flight Lieutenant R. W. Marks of Norwood, SA, a Sunderland aircraft captain of No. 10 Squadron RAAF at RAF Station Mount Batten.

RAAF WW2 Europe medal set - L-R 1939-45 Star (6 months O/S service) , Aircrew Europe Star (operational service over NW Europe up to D Day 5 6 June 1944), Defence Medal (service in a defended area), British War Medal 39-45, Australian War Service Model 39-45.

James Christian Ehrke, my great uncle. James' cerebral meningitis caused by camp conditions according to medical records. He renlisted in WW2 for Homeland Defence.

920 Francis Michael LOCK AFC RH#23

CALLANDER Arthur Stanley 3047 Pte 27th Bn

3495A Gunner (Gnr) Harold Constantine 5th DAC

Reginald Francis GRIMLEY

Studio portrait of 874 Private Joseph Archdall Beacom, 15th Battalion of Barrengarry, NSW. Son of John Beacom and Elizabeth Chittick (formerly Beacom). A farmer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action on 10 August 1916 in France, aged 31. He has no known grave, and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His brother 4078 Private David Beacom was killed in action 5 days earlier.

William Gough's medal set: L-R Distinguished Conduct Medal, 1914/15 Star, British War medal , Victory Medal

An Australian patrol in part of the anti-tank ditch. Compared to another photo purporting to be in an anti tank ditch, which is not much more than a shallow depression, this image gives avery graphic impression of the nature of the obstacle. The aim is to ground a tank in the bottom of the ditch at an angle that prevents self-recovery.

Mk21 Beaufighters just after delivery to No. 93 Squadron after its formation in early 1945, at Kingaroy Queensland.

The eight Handcocks

A memorial to the 460 Squadron crew lost on 13th June 1943

3190 Private Kenneth Morton KNOX 50th Battalion

John Carr Ewen's medal set; L-R Miitary Cross, Distinguijhsed Conduct Medal, Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Pacific Star, British Service Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45

Newspaper article detailing Tom Flynn's tragic demise

The Bullecourt Digger - the famous bronze statue of a digger looking across the Bullecourt battlefield from the town cemetery. Steve Larkins colelction

A Spitfire Mk XIV in the colours of No. 91 Sqn summer of 1944

Peter Masters during the recording of his oral history for the series 'Australians at War' . He also featured in the video documentary '44 Days' narrated by Geoffrey Robertson QC, released in 1992, links to which are contained in the 75 Squadron history.

The Burnside Primary School Memorial Gates, officially dedicated in 1925 to former students who lost their lives in the Great War.

Flying Officer David Payne Croston, 463 Squadron.

Military Medal

WW1 post 31 Dec 1915 embarkation. L-R Military Medal British War Medal, Victory Medal,

3342 Private Harry Lincoln BROOKS of the 27th Battalion

Standing: Pte J R Holland, Pte G Rehn, Pte D P Howard. Seated: Pte R A Howard, Pte P W Brown, Pte V V Woolard

Newspaper CLippings recording the 1938 bout, the first of three in succession won by PC Tom Tobin

"Australia Remembers" plaque. Inscription: Jack Deacon, Army, 1941-1946. City of West Torrens

Colonel William De Passey’s medals

Vietnam War Memorial, Adelaide, South Australia

429369 Flying Officer (FO) Richard Rodney (Rod) Young, 463 Sqn RAAF, of West Maitland, NSW at the controls of 'H' for How, about to depart on a raid on the Dortmund-Emms Canal in Germany. Just three weeks later he was flying JO-K when it was lost over Giessen, Germany

The second attack at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918

Japanese pilots of the Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group assigned to New Guinea from February 1942 - Saburo Sakai seated middle row second from left - one of the top Japanese Ace of the war who in 1997 lobbied the Australian Government to recognise Warren Cowan's actions on 1942. Standing top row left is PO1/c Hiroyoshi Nishizawa who went on to become the top Japanese Ace. He was killed as a passenger in a transport aircraft over the Philippines in 1944. Sakai survived the war having lost an eye over Guadalcanal. He passed away in 2000.

Australian delegates at the Japanese surrender ceremony on board USS Missouri. Left to right: (back row) Captain J. Balfour; Lieutenant Colonel D. H. Dwyer; Air Vice Marshal G. Jones; Lieutenant General F. H. Berryman; Commodore J. A. Collins. Front row: Rear Admiral G. Moore; General Sir Thomas Blamey (who signed for Australia) and Air Vice Marshal W. D. Bostock.

Possibly one of the most recognised photos of the AIF on the Western Front. Lieutenant Rupert Frederick Arding Downes MC addresses his Platoon from B Company, 29th Battalion on 8 August 1918 during a rest before the advance onto Harbonnieres, the battalion's second objective. They are near the villages of Warfusee and Lamotte, France. The background of the photograph is obscured by the smoke of heavy shellfire. Many of the men pictured were killed in action or died of wounds or disease in the days and weeks after the photograph was taken, being amongst the last Australian deaths during the First World War. Each man has a story. Pte Towers (fourth from right), for example, was a farm labourer of Cootamundra, NSW, who later transferred to the 32nd Battalion. He was admitted to the Abbeville Hospital on 9 November 1918 suffering broncho-pneumonia where he died on 11 November 1918.

Richard FETHERSTON - Postcard to Work Colleagues in Australia

BRave of Warrant Officer Reginald Russell Wicks - Becklingen War Cemetery

The 102nd Howitzer Battery, Australian Field Artillery using 4.5 inch Q.F. Howitzers, in action in a wheat field on the morning of the start of the advance. Left to right: Gunner (Gnr) T. F. McDermott (1); Gnr C. E. Brasington (2); Gnr George Brasington (3); Bombardier (Bdr) C. R. Newton (4); Corporal (Cpl) G. Moysey (5); Gnr L. C. Bennison (6); Lieutenant (Lt) L. C. Wade (7); Lt Heppingstone (8); Bdr D. J. McAlister (9); Gnr W. H. Whitburn (10); Sergeant (Sgt) J. H. Cooper (11); Gnr J. A. Riley (12); Gnr W. Campbell (13); Bdr H. F. Renton (14); Gnr W. N. McCallum (15); Sgt J. Shingles (16); Lt N. J. Delaney (17); Bdr E. T. Green (18); Gnr Dyson-Holland (19); Gnr F. Renton (20); Major D. Toomey (21).

A Mosquito aircraft of No 87 Squadron RAAF, undergoes an overhaul by unidentified ground crew at Alice Springs, NT. The guns have been removed and a camera placed in the nose of the aircraft in readiness to participate in topographic surveys for the Army. The ground crew are performing maintenance on the undercarriage and in the background is another Mosquito aircraft.